Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead, a distinguished anthropologist, was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901. ... Her father insisted Mead should attend DePauw University and after one year, she transferred to Barnard College and met the great anthropologist Franz Boas, who later became her mentor and her advisor. ... As an anthropologist, Mead had been trained to think in terms of the connections and similarities of all aspects of human life. ... From 1936 to 1939, Mead and Bateson traveled to Bali, Indonesia to cover more studies. ... Despite the fact that doctors told Mead she was not going to be able to have children, she and Bateson had one child, Mary Catherine Bateson, in 1939. ... Margaret Mead has shown the public that human diversity is a resource and that all human beings are capable and have the capacity to learn from and teach each other. ... Mead has also written other works, such as Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, Male and Female, and Balinese Character: A Photo Analysis. These works were significant, but they hardly represented all of what Mead has done.